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this is to be taken to prison.
this is to be taken to prison.
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This is isn’t good. On another note he has quoted to supply and fit spot lights. All electric work in a bathroom must be undertaken by a Part P competent person. To not be so breaches building regs. It’s a serious safety point to think about. Unless he subbed out to a part p electrician ? Or did he do it
Oh dear, thanks Dan.Oh no. This isn't good.
Also no internal corner expansion gap. This isn't a tiler who's done this. He needs some training or something. Certainly needs to stop saying he can tile.
Dot and dab = no
Tiling to PVA = no
Tiling to Emulsion = no
No internal corner expansion gap = no
Those are big no's. They're not just for looks. The tiles can pop off the wall with any one of those, you've got a hat trick plus one.
Then the edging needed sorting but that's just cosmetic.
He needed more adhesive, and to use it properly. And then to score the walls. And use an Acrylic Primer and not PVA. PVA is good for children making things but other than that it shouldn't be used. It's used in some plastering techniques but I don't think much else.
When you get a tradesman in, you need a skilled tradesman. Not a builder.
There's no such trade as a builder. You can't get a qualification in "building".
You're either an architectural engineer (you do the plans), or a bricklayer (you build to the plans). An actual building company consists of both of those. But neither would go out to quote a bathroom installation job, and neither would say they're a builder.
It's a common problem.
But let it fire off warning signs when somebody say "I'm a builder, I can do that". They mean "I once worked on a building site as a labourer, I will have a go at that". Because an actual skilled person who works on a site will say their skill. Not call themselves a builder, or tradesman.
All useless information now. But worth noting for the future.
YOU NEED A TILER for the tiling AND AN ELECTRICIAN for the electrics. A plumber will do the plumbing (though with water plumbing rather than gas, like with tiling, it's an un unregulated trade so although there are qualifications, most doing it wont have any) first fix and second fix. Both a tiler and a plumber might do the other in a bathroom, but they still wont call themselves a builder. They'll say they're a tiler that does plumbing, or plumber that can tile. Neither usually do both to standard.
We do have a few that can though @Boggs being one.
Its not acceptable but what i would say is that the quote he has given you for them works is way too cheap no matter where you are based in the country. pay peanuts get monkeys and all that.
He said isolation valves would reduce the water pressure, to be fair it's a 1920`s house and one supply is shared by 4 houses and can drop quite low on the rare'ish occasions we all use the supply at once. Is this a reasonable statement?Looks like it will be some poor siliconing behind the taps, and because the tiles are dot and dabbed on the water is free to run down behind the tiles.
And some isolation valves on the bath tap would be best practice really.
Thank you Jcr (sorry, I don't know your name).You can get full flow isolation valves, he should know this
Thank you boggs.Full bore lever valves won’t restrict the flow.
I have fitted isolation valves to all outlets for the whole of my 26 years plumbing, but I can’t tell you if they are needed to meet water regs on baths as they are not readily accessible.
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